Washington, DC Pretrial Risk Assessment Validation Project

The latest publication of Federal Probation examines the Pretrial Services Agency (PSA) for the District of Columbia’s recent efforts to improve their pretrial risk assessment tool. The article, Using Research to Improve Pretrial Justice and Public Safety: Results from PSA’s Risk Assessment Validation Project, outlines the process PSA went through to validate a more accurate risk tool and lays out how the tool is being implemented.